The News Report “Calvin draws fine line in teaching of evolution; Professors get administration backing with note of caution” was the announcement in the Feb. 16 Local Advance newspaper. (The daily Grand Rapids Press, Detroit daily and local TV news had been reporting the matter somewhat more extensively and flamboyantly.) The writer, Rick Boyd-Merrit, gave […]
The liberals in the CRC are becoming very bold the last number of years—almost ruthless one could say. And they have no intention of looking back. They are in the driver’s seat (even though numerically they are still a minority in the CRC). We have an article in the Church Order (29) which says that […]
1. His Central Role. In Basic Bible teachings Christ obviously takes a central place. Even our secularized world reckons time before and since His coming (“B.C.” and “A.D.”). Consider that half of the articles of the Apostle’s Creed are devoted to Him. This simply echoes His place in Biblical revelation. “To Him all the prophets […]
Recently, I glanced through eight or nine copies of a popular, fundamentalist religious magazine. It obviously aimed to fan the flames of revival in the United States and to urge Christians to try to obtain more conversions of the unsaved. While I am grateful for the concern, urgency, and zeal of its revivalistic/evangelistic way of […]
Committed Christians as, indeed, educated people of all persuasions have long been aware that network TV viewing requires great selectivity, especially where children are involved. The advent of cable TV, though it expanded their field of responsibility, did not present a challenge which differed in kind from that which had long been forced upon them. […]
Herne Bay Court, a Christian Holiday and Conference Centre in Kent, bas decided that next summer its heated outdoor swimming-pool will be open on Sundays. Nothing surprising in that. Most holiday centres do the same; and many Christians have long since declared themselves emancipated from the Fourth Commandment. What’s new is the marvellous […]